Yes, dual CPU. Two mighty 200MHz Pentium Pro...
But no, I don't think the kernel on the CD works. This failure occurs as soon as I press enter at the initial prompt after booting the CD.
I've tried "linux memmap=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=95m@1m rpmarch=1586" at that prompt, but it doesn't help.
What is the message actually telling me?
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:24 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:36:02PM +0100, Gordon Hay wrote:
Trying to install FC5 from CD, first boot fails with message
"Unknown interrupt or fault at EIP 00010006 00000060 c03a1e80" and this message is endlessly repeated.
System is an old Compaq Proliant 2500, and FC4 runs fine.
dual CPU ?
Because of the Proliant's "memory hole", FC4 needs boot parameters "memmap=exactmap mem=640k@0 mem=95m@1m"
so the kernel on the install cd works, but the one it boots into is broken ? doing the install with rpmarch=i586 as a boot option should work around that. It does mean that you'll be stuck in single processor mode for now though. (unless you try the experimental 568-smp kernel I put on http://people.redhat.com/davej post-install)
The pentium pro should be more than capable of running the 686-smp kernel though (and in fact, I did an install on a 4-way proliant 5000 a few days back, which went fine).
Dave